On behalf of our researchers, I welcome you to the website of the Research Institute of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. The site provides information about our various research programs and administrative organizations. We intend that the site serve as a resource for our clients, the KFUPM research community, and others. The site includes general overviews of our various research centers and support offices, updates on latest research at KFUPM, and profiles on many of researchers staff and faculty.
The Research Institute is the cornerstone of applied research activities at KFUPM. It has created a strong research base and is recognized for solving critical scientific and technical problems as well as working on turning knowledge into practice. Working in collaboration with the faculty from academic departments, our full-time researchers annually produce hundreds of research reports for industrial and government sponsors.
Our research activities are guided by the needs of the Kingdom, with
concentration on engineering research, environment and water, petroleum
and minerals, refining and petrochemicals, communications and computers,
and economics and management systems. We are expanding our capabilities
in some fields through the support of the Ministry of Higher Education
by establishing the Centers of Research Excellence (CoRE) program, which
initially will include concentrations in renewable energy, refining and
petrochemicals and nanotechnologies. More centers will be added in the
future.
Thank you for visiting,
Dr. Sahel N. Abduljauwad
Vice Rector for Applied Research
P.O. Box 5040, KFUPM
Dhahran 31261
Saudi Arabia
Tel: +966-3-860-2200
Fax: +966-3-860-3661
Email:
vrar@kfupm.edu.sa